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Small Business Marketing Unleashed April 08

A few nice business marketing images I found:


Small Business Marketing Unleashed April 08
business marketing
Image by Wendy Piersall
Matt McGee



Small Business Marketing Unleashed April 08
business marketing
Image by Wendy Piersall
Abby Prince

Cool Business Courses images

A few nice business courses images I found:


ING Business course 2011 day 2: de Kook Fabrik
business courses
Image by ING Nederland


ING Business course 2011 day 2: de Kook Fabrik
business courses
Image by ING Nederland

Cool Business Plan Template images

A few nice business plan template images I found:


Action Plan Template - Project Budget
business plan template
Image by IvanWalsh.com
An Action Plan is a summary of what you are going to accomplish in your business over a specified period of time.

Use this template to:

Scope the big picture - Outline what you want to accomplish with objectives, budget, time and tie each deliverable to an action step.

Break out smaller tasks - Assign tasks to team members. Consider the deadlines in terms of allocating resources.

Create a list of action steps - For each task, prepare a list of to-dos ranked in sequential order.

Prioritize - Some steps are more important that others. Prioritize steps based on deadline, task, and the number of steps remaining.

Communicate - Circulate the plan to team members that have been assigned tasks.

Complete deadlines on time - Estimate when tasks will be finish based on the rate of action step completion.

Track results – Evaluate performance and implement continuous monitoring procedures to ensure the project stays on track.

www.mysoftwaretemplates.com/2009/06/action-plan-template/

Cool Business Funding images

Some cool business funding images:



Regional Growth Fund projects selected
business funding
Image by bisgovuk
Business Secretary, Vince Cable visited Redx Pharma in Liverpool yesterday, a UK-based pharmaceutical company which has been allocated £4.7 million in round 3 of the Regional Growth Fund for research into drugs against microbial infection, influenza, hepatitis C and HIV. The project is expected to create 119 jobs over five years. For more information visit www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2012/Oct/regional-growth-f...

Nice Home Based Business photos

A few nice home based business images I found:



Sewing Project
home based business
Image by cambodia4kidsorg
The sewing school trains young women in sewing skills - they graduate and get higher paying jobs in the garment industry or run their own home-based businesses.

Cool Free Business Cards images

Check out these free business cards images:



Business card - front - spot UV
free business cards
Image by Stuart Frisby
The layout here is identical to what will be the header of my redesigned site - once I've finished it. The cards are from print100.com - nice quality and rounded corners for free, spotUV was inexpensive too.


Free Blank Business Cards
free business cards
Image by Rex Pechler
Cool idea, only noticed them when I was leaving though.

Nice On Line Business photos

A few nice on line business images I found:


almas muertas 14
on line business
Image by jfranarias


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on line business
Image by jfranarias


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on line business
Image by jfranarias

Cool Business One images

Check out these business one images:



business cards - master objects
business one
Image by juni xu
Currently shuffling pieces around, playing with new ones, and trying to finalize.

2 inch hail stones

A few nice insurance for business images I found:


2 inch hail stones
insurance for business
Image by State Farm
Prior to the large scale indoor hail simulation, Dr. Ian Giammanco, lead research scientist for the hail test, loads 2 inch hail stones into a cannon for demonstration. Visit www.disastersafety.org to learn more about how this first indoor hail simulation in the world came to be and what you can do to reduce catastrophic damage from hail. State Farm is one of the founding members of IBHS.


The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) Research Center is a unique, state-of-the-art, multi-risk applied research and training in Chester County, South Carolina. This facility is a tangible, very public demonstration of the property insurance industry’s deep commitment to reducing and preventing losses that disrupt the lives of millions of home and business owners each year. The scientific research conducted here will influence residential and commercial structural design and construction for decades to come, and will significantly advance building science by enabling researchers to more fully and accurately evaluate various residential and commercial construction materials and systems.

Nice Business Sale photos

A few nice business sale images I found:


Street Smart Sales Forum.Steve Gatter.Collaboration.Sales Managers.Coaching
business sale
Image by bizbuzzmedia
Think tank forum for business owners, sales managers, entrepreneurs and sa;es professionals.

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Check out these business partner images:


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business partner
Image by bthoem


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business partner
Image by bthoem


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business partner
Image by bthoem

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A few nice small business loan images I found:


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small business loan
Image by USDAgov
Rick Huszagh (right) and Crista Carrell, Down to Earth Energy, GA, attended a meeting at the White House, in Washington, DC, on July 6, 2011. They were asked to participate along with President Barack Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the President's Domestic Policy Adviser Melody Barnes and rural communities leaders from across the country for the White House Rural Champions of Change event to strengthen rural communities and promote economic growth. When Rick Huszagh and Crista Carrell purchased part of her family’s farm in 1995, their focus was on farmland preservation as much as the creation of a successful business enterprise. Mountain Creek Farm started out selling Boer goats to purebred and commercial breeders and Bermuda hay to neighboring horse farms. Goat kids were raised each spring to sell for breeding stock or meat. The couple improved their farm marketing by participating in shows, performance tests, and field days. The farm’s proximity to the University of Georgia facilitated their involvement in herd management studies related to the control of internal parasites. They took full advantage of resources offered by the Cooperative Extension Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and participated in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Rick and Crista’s interest in sustainability issues on the farm led them to research and implement small-scale biodiesel production for the tractors in 2005. In 2006, they intensified their renewable energy involvement when they were awarded a Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP) grant and USDA guaranteed loan. Along with like-minded partners, they established Down to Earth Energy, a commercial biodiesel production facility located adjacent to the farm. Concern with some of the inefficiencies in the biodiesel process led them to partner with the University of Georgia to develop a more effective catalyst. The concept was further funded by an EPA Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR) and a Venturelab grant. Crista was appointed a Walton County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor in 2006. She has spearheaded the district’s sponsorship of community forestry activities in Monroe and served as the coordinator of Atha Road Elementary School’s outdoor classroom from 2003-2011. Her work as a district supervisor led to her being hired as the first full-time Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Conservation District Supervisors (GACDS) in 2007. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

OBAMA AND WALL STREET

Some cool small business financing images:


OBAMA AND WALL STREET
small business financing
Image by SS&SS
Bestselling investigative reporter Charles Gasparino's latest tome Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street commences not with a scene from the much-ballyhooed first one hundred days of the new Administration, but at a hush-hush 2007 pow-wow at Johnny's Half Shell in Washington, D.C. between then-Senator Barack Obama and executives from Wall Street's top firms -- Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns -- which went so swimmingly the only warm fuzzy it lacked was the ghost of Humphrey Bogart intoning, "Barry, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

From there the Fox Business Network senior correspondent and Daily Beast columnist lays out in gobstopping detail just how well both sides have since profited from this extended dalliance, combining fiery outsider indignation with hard-won insider knowledge, narrative prowess, and a true knack for the telling anecdote -- disgraced Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Warren Spector spending his days knocking on Florida doors as a volunteer Obama campaign worker and nights bedded down at luxury hotels while his preferred candidate ceaselessly derides Republicans as the party of Wall Street is but one among many doozies.

Bought and Paid For is, in short, required reading for anyone interested in the obscured behind the scenes machinations of the economic maelstrom we currently find ourselves mired in. Gasparino was recently kind enough to speak with TAS about his book.

TAS: What compelled you to write Bought and Paid For?

Charles Gasparino: The notion of Big Government and Big Wall Street colluding to do bad things is something I've covered for a long time. I've always been interested in the conflicts between public policy and finance. What I've seen over the years is this seemingly bizarre anomaly of how Wall Street, which is allegedly the epicenter of capitalism, in reality thrived on something that is very anti-capitalist, which is Big Government. Crony capitalism. And these guys aren't doing it just to make money on fees selling government bonds to finance the deficit or government programs. The people at the top have political beliefs that are strongly aligned with progressivism.

TAS: Reading your book I was surprised to learn how kindred a spirit the big players of Big Finance saw in Barack Obama, particularly at first. They weren't supporting him simply as a pragmatic, strategic move. David Axelrod joked about Obama having a "man crush" on JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and you write financial executives saw the future president as "a guy who could have easily worked at a big Wall Street law firm if he hadn't gone into community organizing first."

Gasparino: I think a lot of the country was projecting something onto Obama they wanted to see but maybe wasn't there. Here was one of the most far left politicians I have ever seen -- based on his record, based on his associations, everything. People forget Reverend Wright, aside from his racially charged language, taught liberation theology, which basically says the Bible is infused with Marxism. That's his spiritual mentor. And all these Wall Street guys were lining up to support him.

TAS: Why?

Gasparino: Well, first, McCain couldn't stand them. It was oil and water. He screamed at Hank Paulson any chance he got. He'd spent five years in a prisoner-of-war camp, crashed a couple planes -- not exactly the type of guy who's gonna kiss a banker's ass. McCain was foreign to them and his campaign doubled down on that foreign-ness by picking Sarah Palin. When they looked at Obama they saw a guy who went to their schools, who shared their manners, who didn't break their chops. Obama was just so personally charming that something like Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers didn't have any effect. They believed at heart Obama was a moderate who understood them. And it panned out. If you look at one line of work that's done very well under Obama it isn't construction, it isn't small business or entrepreneurship. It's all the big banks that started making a ton of money the minute they got bailed out, and all those bailout mechanisms Bush put in place have been carried over and doubled down on under Obama.

TAS: Do you think the difference between the media caricature of Wall Street as a militant free-market bastion and its limousine liberal reality will ever be cleared up in the general public's mind?

Gasparino: I think it already has been. That's why the President started attacking Wall Street like a minute after Scott Brown won Teddy Kennedy's seat. The public has definitely started to put it all together. I'm not a member of the Tea Party by any stretch of the imagination, but I will say one of the good things about that movement is that they understand this inside game, they don't like it, and they want it to end. They understand how corrupting it is for the entire system when Big Business can exploit the growth of Big Government. They instinctively know there is huge hypocrisy in Obama calling these guys fat cats when Wall Street is just exploiting what he presented them to exploit. Now, Wall Street shouldn't be commended for that, but let's be honest about it: this was a partnership…. This country is in desperate, desperate straits because government has skewed the incentives. The free market, which has been demonized, wouldn't have given these guys a bonus. It would have destroyed all of their businesses.

TAS: Could there be Big Government on the scale we've recently seen it without the complicity of Big Finance and Wall Street?

Gasparino: They feed off each other. If there were no bailout, I guess you could say there'd be no opportunity to make money off the bailout. But what we can say is you need someone to underwrite Obamacare. Wall Street is there to do that. BlackRock managed all the toxic assets of Bear Stearns. When they do cap-and-trade, they'll be creating a new commodity to be traded on some exchange somewhere. The Fed, urged on by the White House, went in and bought .3 trillion mortgage backed securities, artificially propping up the market with taxpayer money. All the Wall Street firms that bought for pennies on the dollar are benefiting from the appreciation of a market that is only appreciating because of taxpayer money. Forget financial reform. The banks have made a killing since the bailout. And the average American? They're stuck with the wonderful stimulus package that gave us 9.6 percent unemployment.

TAS: The last chapter of your book sums up this collusion between Big Finance and Big Government, sarcastically, as "Money Well Spent." Does the failure of recent government intervention -- diehard, never-could-be-convinced-otherwise defenders notwithstanding -- signal that we're on the verge of this sort of alliance no longer being money well spent?

Gasparino: Look, I think crony capitalism hurts the system. It basically allows a few privileged, wealthy, connected people to do well exploiting the spoils of government that the rest of us can't. It's getting worse, it ain't getting better. The small business lobby is not as strong as the fat cat lobby in Washington. The bailouts of the last 30 years are how Wall Street got used to taking so much risk, and the latest bailouts? The government thought by creating a market of mortgage-backed securities somehow that whole shadow banking system that allowed the banks to make those loans in the first place would come back, but it never did because banks think logically about this: "Why should we be extending loans when we can just make money off this one program?"

Unintended consequences. That's the problem when government gets involved in this stuff. When will banks start making loans again? Well, you need the mortgage market to deflate. It'll only deflate when we have more pain. Now, there was no easy answer. But if you let natural forces take control in the financial crisis…firms go under, they stop lending, prices of securities drop dramatically, lots of losses. A tremendous amount of pain. And then the ones that survive pick up the pieces. But look what happens when you bail them out. They limp along for two years. Instead of the immediate pain you have a dead man walking. That's what we have right now. The bailouts just postpone the inevitable.



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small business financing
Image by USDAgov
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks at the National Export Initiative (NEI) Small Business Tour in Milwaukee, WI, on Wednesday, August 3, 2011. An important goal of the NEI is to provide additional assistance to small and medium-sized businesses, which are major drivers of job creation. The NEI is assisting small and medium-sized businesses win more foreign government contracts, find buyers worldwide, participate in more trade missions and trade shows, receive more export financing, and learn new ways to sell products and services overseas. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

Podcast Moderators

Some cool business reports images:


Podcast Moderators
business reports
Image by Project On Government Oversight
Bryan Rahija and Dana Liebelson moderated the podcast. pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/09/new-podcast-discussing-...


Scott Amey
business reports
Image by Project On Government Oversight
POGO General Counsel Scott Amey. pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/09/new-podcast-discussing-...

Nice Business Listings photos

Some cool business listings images:


Google Local/Maps Updated Results
business listings
Image by rustybrick
More at Google Local Business Center Updates Google Maps Business Listings; Kinda...


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business listings
Image by Peter Konnecke
Google Maps on a mobile phone in Australia. Well I never ... :) Now Google just has to get the directions and business listings right. I know it's truelocal.com.au content but ya woulda through thay'd think of that before release.
See where the photo was taken at maps.yuan.cc/.
Australian Postcode and Geotagging Group

Cool Business Idea images

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2010 Ideas Challenge
business idea
Image by Mays Business School
Students take part in the 2010 Ideas Challenge

[Photo: Nathan Adams/Mays Communications]

RAVEN Cloud demo: zoomed out process map

Check out these business process images:


RAVEN Cloud demo: zoomed out process map
business process
Image by sandy kemsley



PowerWork im Business Process Management
business process
Image by Chris Polus
Im Studium stolpert man über manche Kuriosität. Grade lese ich die 180 Seiten für Business Process Management und stolpere im Buch von Andreas Gadatsch (Geschäftsprozessmanagement, Seite 242) über ein Bildschirmfoto unserer Kollegen aus Kempten. Der PowerWork Process Designer V5 ist hier abgebildet. Auf weiteren Screenshots dann Formulare mit Dummydaten aus Kempten.

Die Welt ist klein. Grüsse an die Kollegen.

Cool Business Marketing images

A few nice business marketing images I found:


Track Keynote: Business, Marketing and Management
business marketing
Image by Official GDC
GDC Europe 2012 (Mon, 8/13) //
Track Keynote: Business, Marketing and Management //
World of Free-to-Play - AAA by Wargaming.net //
Victor Kislyi (Wargaming.net) // Photographer: Dennis Stachel for GDC Europe


Track Keynote: Business, Marketing and Management
business marketing
Image by Official GDC
GDC Europe 2012 (Mon, 8/13) //
Track Keynote: Business, Marketing and Management //
World of Free-to-Play - AAA by Wargaming.net //
Victor Kislyi (Wargaming.net) // Photographer: Dennis Stachel for GDC Europe

Small Business Roundtable

Some cool office small business images:


Small Business Roundtable
office small business
Image by Office of Governor Patrick
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 -- Governor Patrick highlights efforts to reduce small business healthcare costs.

(Photo Credit: Matt Bennett/Governor's Office)

2009 Up-Start Competition Wommers

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2009 Up-Start Competition Wommers
ideas for business
Image by mars_discovery_district
Winner John Zhou and MaRS Advisor, Don Duval, of the Up-Start Competition, a business pitch competition open to participants enrolled in CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101. Individuals, or teams of individuals, have to give a ten minute presentation on an idea for a technology based business that they wish to implement (or, if appropriate, for a business that they have already started). They are expected to apply the concepts that they have learned from the course to their business idea, and to make a compelling case that this will lead to a very successful business.


More information on the 2009 competition:
http://www.marsdd.com/events/details.html?uuid=11a0c7a5-0955-40de-be06-6ff56000e9fd


World Business Forum 2011
ideas for business
Image by Universidad Europea de Madrid
World Business Forum: A platform for the ideas and trends that are shaping the future of business; Influencers, experts, change agents, doers - up on the stage and by your side. The annual meeting for those who do business, create opportunities and drive change in the world.


Will This Float? 2008 Flyer
ideas for business
Image by thinkjose
Nov 20th 2008 - Come join us.

willthisfloat.com for more info

Cool Business Intelligence images

A few nice business intelligence images I found:



Paul Rodwick speaking at Media Q & A
business intelligence
Image by Oracle_Photos_Screenshots
Oracle VP of Product Management


Oracle customers discuss BI
business intelligence
Image by Oracle_Photos_Screenshots
On stage - Andrew Sutherland (Oracle), Mike Blackmore (BT), Paul Nannetti (Cap Gemini)

RegenEn Solar

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RegenEn Solar
find business
Image by Independent We Stand
812 E. Washington St.
Louisville, KY 40206
www.regenensolar.com

Nice Business Funding photos

A few nice business funding images I found:


ISAF Contracting Personnel Meet with Afghan Business Community
business funding
Image by isafmedia
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KABUL, Afghanistan (May 21) – Contracting personnel from International Security Assistance Force Headquarters met with Afghan vendors Wednesday to discuss the contracting process for NATO common funding in support of ISAF. (Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. LuCelia Ball ISAF Public Affairs Office)


ISAF Contracting Personnel Meet with Afghan Business Community
business funding
Image by isafmedia
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KABUL, Afghanistan (May 21) – Contracting personnel from International Security Assistance Force Headquarters met with Afghan vendors Wednesday to discuss the contracting process for NATO common funding in support of ISAF. (Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. LuCelia Ball ISAF Public Affairs Office)

Handmade paper business cards

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Handmade paper business cards
make business cards
Image by Боби Димитров
Straw, grass and box tree leaves in recycled handmade paper.

Those little pieces of handmade paper can be turned in any type of card, like business card, a tag or a note. The best and easiest way is to make a rubber stamp and use it to stamp your text!

Визитки за Art-Tochka.com


Kristiana Parn's business card
make business cards
Image by Smath.
This is the business card of Kristiana Parn, from New York.

She makes charmingly beautiful drawings that make me want to sit quietly and stare at them and smile for ages.

I kept this business card so I could remember her, because her art is so gentle and happy-making.

More of her drawings are on her website: kristianaparn.com/drawings.htm

You can buy her things on Etsy too, and I think I might just do that: www.krisblues.etsy.com/

Nice Business Degree photos

A few nice business degree images I found:


6 Degrees Networking breakfast at Centotre, Edinburgh 13 March 2013
business degree
Image by 6 Degrees Networking
Guests pitch their respective businesses at the www.6degreesnetworking.co.uk breakfast on 13 March 2013 at Centotre, Edinburgh.



Upward mobility through a business degree!
business degree
Image by askpang

Michael Kerwin & Brian Auger

A few nice business partnership images I found:


Michael Kerwin & Brian Auger
business partnership
Image by New Jersey State Library
The Somerset County Business Partnership recognized the Somerset County Library with a 2012 Economic Vitality Award for its programs to provide resources and assistance to patrons with employment search challenges. Accepting the award was Brian Auger, director of the Somerset County Library System, (right) from Michael Kerwin, president & CEO of the SCBP.


Brian Auger & Michael Kerwin
business partnership
Image by New Jersey State Library
The Somerset County Business Partnership recognized the Somerset County Library with a 2012 Economic Vitality Award for its programs to provide resources and assistance to patrons with employment search challenges. Accepting the award was Brian Auger, director of the Somerset County Library System, (left) from Michael Kerwin, president & CEO of the SCBP.


Brian Auger & Michael Kerwin
business partnership
Image by New Jersey State Library
The Somerset County Business Partnership recognized the Somerset County Library with a 2012 Economic Vitality Award for its programs to provide resources and assistance to patrons with employment search challenges. Accepting the award was Brian Auger, director of the Somerset County Library System, (left) from Michael Kerwin, president & CEO of the SCBP.

Acro Media Team

A few nice business profile images I found:


Acro Media Team
business profile
Image by BC Gov Photos
Acro Media, a Kelowna-based web design firm, has accumulated an impressive client list within B.C.
Acro Media is in the Thompson-Okanagan — a region that recorded the highest net growth in the number of small businesses in B.C. between 2007 and 2009.
They are one of eight B.C. companies featured in the 2010 Small Business Profile released October 18.


exciting business
business profile
Image by shankargallery
Art for the Soul by RICHARD LAZZARA
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www.myspace.com/richardlazzara
blog.myspace.com/richardlazzara
flickr.com/photos/shankargallery/
richardlazzara.slide.com/
artscad.com/@/RichardLazzara
artscad.com/@/ShankarGallery
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/shankargallery/
paik.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/portfolio/art/blogs/view_ar...
art.la-passerelle.net/art_pages/richard_lazzara/links.htm
www.artmajeur.com/shankargallery/
www.picturetrail.com/homepage/shankargallery
www.supersociety.com/shankargallery
www.xanga.com/shankargallery
shankargallery.blogspot.com
www.visionarygallery.com/artists/shankargallery/index.php
www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view_super/214649/i5766437/
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shankargallery.livejournal.com/
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ma.gnolia.com/people/shankargallery/bookmarks
clipmarks.com/clipper/shankargallery/
del.icio.us/shankargallery
digg.com/users/richardlazzara/news/dugg
www.platial.com/shankargallery
www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/shankargallery/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shankargallery
cast2crew.com/userinfo.php?uid=407
www.last.fm/user/shankargallery/
www.projectplaylist.com/user/669142
www.thedjlist.com/djs/SHANKARGALLERY
www.youtube.com/profile?user=richardlazzara
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flickr.com/photos/shankargallery/favorites/
flickr.com/people/shankargallery/contacts/
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Dynoflex
business profile
Image by BC Gov Photos
With a vision of reducing the amount of tires destined for the landfill, Dinoflex transforms tires into indoor and outdoor flooring.
They are one of eight B.C. companies featured in the 2010 Small Business Profile released October 18.

Cool Best Business images

A few nice best business images I found:



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best business
Image by Bernardo Fuller
Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal discusses the Army's Business Transformation and the value of collaborating with industry on best business practices with the Army News Service and Army Broadcasting at the Pentagon, 16 Oct. 2012, Washington, DC. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller)

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